Monday, July 23, 2012

DC Comics writer
James Robinson declared that he has received many messages criticizing him for
having homosexualized the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, who now is forced
to be a homosexual. The strongest opposition, the bitter scriptwriter says,
came from Brazil.

James Robinson: seeking revenge from Brazilian fans of Green Lantern

“The most
hostile criticism I’ve received was hostile tweets from Brazil. I had been out
and the next morning I was like ‘all right, my liver is murdering me’ and
someone was like, ‘your liver is punishing you for what you did to Green
Lantern,’” said Robinson according to CBR.

“So, just out of
spite, when Alan Scott can love again the man in his life is going to be
Brazilian,” decided the writer, who is unwilling to accept criticsm from the
Brazilian public.

Although newspapers
have not specified any Brazilian name from the criticism the scriptwriter
received, Blog Julio Severo, in in Portuguese and English, launched an article
so soon as news came from gay activists that DC Comics is succumbing to their
stubborn demands. The articles against the homosexualization of the hero are
these:

Friday, July 13, 2012

Whom
do you trust: God or man?

by Don Hank

If we were to be
honest with ourselves for just a brief moment, we would admit that Western
society is deeply sinful and even worships sin, celebrating with carnivals and
gay parades, and teaching young children how to perform sex acts in schools.
Romans 1:25 accurately describes the Western world (Paul uses homosexuals
as an example but this issue ranges far wider than that):

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for
ever. Amen.

And the end of
that discourse on sinners describes the outcome.

...men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

A graphic
depiction of some of that recompense for this particular group of sinners can
be found here.

So why do people
deliberately engage in self-destructive practices that our superior intelligence
should be telling us to avoid for the purposes of self preservation? Or for
that matter, why do they pursue Keynesian economics amassing mountains of debt
that no one could ever repay in a headlong rush to destroy our economy, our
means of survival?

The answer is
right there in Paul's discourse, and this is the part Christians need to focus
on when examining the failure of Western society to manage its laws, its
immigration, its social ills, its finances and economy, etc:

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.

Did you ever
consider what that means?

It was GOD'S
doing. Paul is talking about people who worship nature instead of the
Creator. Why would people who once worshipped nature turn around
and do something unnatural, as Paul calls this behavior in this same passage? A
person analyzing this without spiritual discernment would say it makes no sense
and would be at a loss to explain it in rational terms. Some spiritually blind
(but otherwise very intelligent) analysts say that for this reason, Paul didn't
really mean "unnatural" when describing this behavior, and they
tamper with the translation from the original Greek to make it say something
else. (They forget that in the 4th Century, Jerome, a fluent speaker of koine
Greek, rendered this term as “contra naturam” in his Vulgate Latin Bible).

But God allows
people to do the unnatural all the time. Once you turn your back on God, He
abandons you and you fall into a behavior pattern designed by Satan. There is
nothing natural about sinful behavior because it was not designed by God. If it
is not natural, then is it supernatural?

Well, since God
performs supernatural works—that is, works above nature—then Satan’s works
might best be considered asa infranatural, or below nature. An animal would not
destroy its own habitat and economy the way humans are now doing. Nor would an
animal devote itself almost solely to the pursuit of sex, especially homosex,
the way many humans do (although homosexuality is known in the animal kingdom,
there are no known strictly homosexual individuals that eschew all individuals
of the opposite sex).

These
infranatural phenomena are exactly why we face an imminent worldwide economic
collapse. Economists, supposedly specialists in math, no longer "do
math." Likewise, otherwise educated people who understand human anatomy
deliberately and routinely utilize a bodily organ designed as an outlet as an
inlet, a lifestyle that leads to horrific diseases and death (see here.)

GOD allows this.
Because people stopped trusting in Him and thought they could come up with
their own answers. Look around you. How do you like the results of Western
secularist, humanist political, economic, social, etc, behavior? Vote for
either candidate and you will get more of the same.

This is why the
West does not need more laws or a better government.

It needs a
spiritual revival. And that revival will not happen without the love that Jesus
taught. Americans, including the best and otherwise most civil and decent of
us, are beating each other up because we think this is about people. If people
do this or that, or if we make this or that law or elect this or that
politician, then we can get back on track. How can this group or that group be
so stupid, they say?

But
again, they ignore Paul's words in another letter of his:

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark
world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

If you think
this is too high-flown and ethereal to relate to your life and the world around
you, consider this article on John Maynard Keynes, the author of our failed
economic system (bailouts and other government intervention that kills free
enterprise):

If we take to
heart Paul’s message in Romans 1:25-27, we can easily see it was no coincidence
that Keynes was both a sexual pervert (pedophile, homosexual, etc) and the
author of the most perverted economic system known to humankind.

Outrage
in Brazil as health ministry prepares to instruct women on how to perform
illegal abortions

by Matthew
Cullinan Hoffman

BRAZIL, July 12,
2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — When
Brazil’s lead presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff was confronted with her
pro-abortion past during the 2010 elections, she protested and claimed that she
was opposed to the killing of the unborn.

Dilma Rousseff and Obama in Brazil in 2011

As her poll
numbers fell and her election was jeopardized, Rousseff signed a public
statement promising never to introduce legislation to legalize abortion or
silence critics of homosexuality. She went on to win the presidency by a
twelve percent margin.

Pro-lifers are
now crying foul as reports have begun to appear in the Brazilian media of plans
on the part of the Rousseff administration to instruct women on how to perform
chemical abortions, in the name of “reducing the damage caused by clandestine
abortions.”

Women who wish
to perform a “clandestine” abortion would inform the health ministry of their
plans, and receive training on how to perform the abortions, and would even be
given the drugs to do so, although they are currently illegal. They will then
be given free access to post-abortion medical care at state expense, according
to the reports.

Although the
Rousseff administration has not yet confirmed or denied the reports, Rousseff’s
pro-abortion Secretary of Women’s Policies, Eleonora Menicucci, recently told
the Folha de S. Paulo that it “is
only a crime to practice abortion itself, but it’s the government’s
understanding that it isn’t a crime to give guidance to women on how to carry
out an abortion.”

Menicucci, a
former Marxist activist who served time with President Rousseff while she was
jailed for terrorism in the early 1970s, has publicly
boasted of having performed multiple abortions on herself, as well has
having received training on how to perform abortions in Colombia. Abortion is
illegal in both Brazil and Colombia although it lacks a criminal penalty in a
very small minority of cases.

The revelations
have led to accusations by pro-lifers of Rousseff contradicting her claim of
opposing abortion during the 2010 elections.

The South One
division of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has issued a statement
denouncing Rousseff’s about-face and asking her to fire her offending
ministers.

Rousseff’s
policy, they write, is to “create incentives for and to spread abortion,
favoring the interests of international organizations that want to impose
population control on developing countries, even if this brings the President
to disrespect the will of the majority of the Brazilian people, which is
against abortion, and to violate the most elemental rules of democracy.”

They call for
“the immediate firing of Minister Eleonora Menicucci from the Secretariat for
Women’s Policies” and the “immediate firing of the Secretary for Medical
Attention of the Ministry of Health, Helvecio Magalhaes, who is coordinating
the implantation of the new means to be taken by that Ministry.”

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A
USAF chaplain and the promise of God

“Honor
your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the
LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12 ESV)

By Julio
Severo

In 1987, Dr.
Arthur Vincent, a Lutheran minister and theology professor, visited Brazil for
a ministers’ meeting. Even with his advanced age, he traveled the whole world,
from Nigeria to Philippines, to encourage and build the people of God in the
important mission of taking the Gospel to a lost world. He even participated in
the Lausanne Congress for World Evangelization. His passion is evangelism.

His visit to
Brazil was not different: He wanted to encourage ministers. And I, who was not
a minister, was there among ministers because, as Dr. Art told me, God wanted
me there.

Dr. Art had a
long life experience, having been a USAF chaplain during World War II. More of
that experience was revealed when, in a very small group of ministers that was
praying, the Holy Spirit spoke prophetically through another American minister,
saying to Dr. Art, right in front of me, that “because you honored your father,
I will increase the years of your life on Earth.”

It was an
interesting promise, considering the American chaplain’s advanced age: 69.
Showing gratitude to God, he told how in 1930, in the most severe financial
crisis in America, he worked to support his family, while his father was an
active alcoholic. He was only 12 years old, and he was working for his family.

However, he
didn’t revile his father. He didn’t despise him. He always respected him.

And there is a
promise in the Word of God for those who honor parents: “Honor your father and your
mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving
you.” (Exodus 20:12 ESV)

With the passing
of years, I lost all contact with Dr. Art. We had not corresponded
for almost 20 years. But last week, I felt a desire to communicate with
him. I researched Google, for the name Arthur Vincent, and there appeared some
names in obituary. I thought, “At this point, he has already died.”

Yet, persisting
in the research, I found an Arthur that was not in obituaries. I called and I
heard a clear voice, and I said that I wanted to talk to Dr. Arthur Vincent. He
answered me in a voice that didn’t seem like that of an old man. I
thought, “This is probably his son!”

But by asking
some questions, especially on his visit to Brazil 25 years ago, he began to
remember. And I told him, “At that date, God told that you would have more
years of life, and today, here talking to you, I see how God is faithful and is
fulfilling His promise in your life.” At that point, he was happy.

Dr. Arthur
Vincent is today 94 years old, and serving God!

Dr. Arthur Vincent: preaching and ministring the Gospel of the Kingdom of God

His visit to
Brazil was a blessing from God for him. I am a living witness of what God told
and fulfilled in his life. And that visit also was a blessing to me. At that
time, he had brought a big, leather-bound study Bible. It was a very special
Bible, and he intended to give it as a gift to a minister in the ministers’
conference. But suddenly he comes to me, in the presence of all ministers, and
he says, “God told me to give this Bible to you.”

I have until
today my Bible autographed by an old USAF chaplain, a man that since his
childhood honored Him who honors — and he was honored.

With the
incentive of that great testimony, I proclaim, “God honors those who honor
Him!”

Brazilian
televangelist Silas Malafaia and his support to socialist politicians in Brazil

In
the lack of a Prophet Elijah or a John the Baptist in Brazil, let us make what
Jesus taught us, “So practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what
they do. For they preach, but do not practice.”

By Julio
Severo

Notice to English-speaking readers: To know more about Silas Malafaia, click here to read a New York Times
article on him.

“Ahab for King
of Israel. Sponsor: Prophet Elijah.” Such message would never have appeared in
a political poster of old Israel, not only because there were no posters on
that time, but also because Prophet Elijah never supported politically King
Ahab.

Elijah’s mission
was to come to the king and say, “Thus says the Lord…” And he fulfilled his
calling faithfully, delivering divine messages, which were usually reproofs.

Prophets of God
gave their lives for their ministries. They spoke to the kings what should be
spoken, no matter who might feel hurt. And it did hurt. And they paid dearly.

I can imagine
Elijah in our days, coming to Brazilian socialist presidents, and saying with
authority, “You are sinning against God and against the people of Brazil. Your
administration has been promoting abortion and homosexuality, which are
abominations in the sight of God. Repent and stop your politics of wickedness!”

I can see those
red men blushing of fury, and saying, “Insolent! How do you dare to rebuke me?
Just for that, I will order the revoking of your TV and radio license.”

So Elijah would
break completely the Brazilian tradition of evangelical leaders supporting
politicians to receive favors. The prophetic reproof of Elijah to the rulers
would make him lose everything!

However, Brazil
has no daring Christian leader to come to the “kings.” All of the ministers,
bishops and other leaders only come to the “kings” of Brazil to get favors, in
a way or other, not to deliver divine messages, much less divine reproofs!

Why to deliver
messages and lose everything?

We have a
mission to accomplish, even in the political ream, but often we forget it, and
God can use the most unexpected people to remind us of our call.

Reinaldo Azevedo
became one of those people. He is a Catholic that works as a columnist in Veja magazine (the Brazilian counterpart
of Time magazine). He supports gay
adoption and is very fond of social democracy, but, by the Brazilian standard,
he is a “conservative” and very critic of the Brazilian socialist government.
He is not a prophet, but he made some “revelations” that are important for
Christians in Brazil. He declared that one of the most sinister men of the
ruling Workers’ Party:

1. Has revealed
there is no longer any opposition for the advancement of the socialist goals of
the Workers’ Party in Brazil. Opposition to socialism in Brazil has been annihilated.

2. Has made
clear that today the only opposition is the mass media churches—which belong
mostly to neo-Pentecostal televangelists.

3. Has declared
that the Workers’ Party is getting ready for a confrontation with those mass
media churches.

I wanted Brazil
to have some Elijahs for that confrontation, men with the integrity of John the
Baptist, who was not afraid of telling a king, “You are sinning against the Law
of God when you commit adultery!”

The Workers’
Party, with its obsession of institutionalizing abortion and homosexuality, is
getting ready for a future confrontation with churches, but we Brazilians have
no Elijah or John the Baptist.

Everything that
we have, generally, are two types of evangelicals:

1. Churches and
leaders that follow the Workers’ Party for opportunism, because they do not
want to lose their radios and TVs. Most of them are neo-Pentecostal.

2. Churches and
leaders that follow the Workers’ Party because, brazenly or not, they are
socialist for ideological reasons. Most of them are not neo-Pentecostal.

It is in that
reality of a spiritually sickened leadership that evangelicals in Brazil have
to lead their lives.

In response to
the declarations from the sinister man of the Workers’ Party, Silas Malafaia
said, “I demonize no political party. As everybody knows, I have already voted
for [Brazilian socialist politicians] Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula and José
Serra.”

Silas Malafaia

Can such a
declaration reflect the spirit of a prophet? Elijah never had his name
registered in a poster of political support to King Ahab. In contrast, Malafaia
didn’t just vote for pro-abortion and pro-sodomy politicians. Only that would
already have been a mistake sufficiently disturbing for a Christian leader. He
did much more than this: he gave his name for pamphlets supporting those
politicians. He led, by his wicked example, crowds to vote for the most
pro-abortion and pro-sodomy politicians in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. It was,
for instance, what happened in 2002, when he, with many other evangelical
leaders, signed a public document supporting Lula, with all of the consequences
that today we know very well and that a genuine prophet would have seen from a
distance.

While the most
powerful evangelical leaders in Brazil were supporting Lula and the future
administration of the Workers’ Party, I was crying out in the wilderness. (In
2002, the president of an evangelical denomination asked me not send him anymore
e-mails “attacking” Lula and his ideological record, making clear that he, as a
member of the Workers’ Party, was very offended by my alerts.)

Even after
seeing all the anti-family attacks by the Lula administration in his first
term, Malafaia supported his reelection, showing an obstinate and blind side of
his evangelical character. In that point, in 2006, Lula’s pro-homosexuality obsession was patent, national and internationally. If he were trying to
be a modern King Ahab, he achieved it. Nevertheless, instead of delivering
reproofs to Lula, Malafaia preferred, consciously, giving him political
support. If he were trying to be a prophet, he did not achieve it.

So, Malafaia was
limited in his public declaration, when he said, “I have already voted for
[Brazilian socialist politicians] Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula and José
Serra.” He forgot mentioning that he voted and promoted Sérgio Cabral, the most
pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality governor of Rio de Janeiro.

The declaration
of Malafaia should have included what he really did, “I have voted for, I have
supported and I have promoted, with my signature, all of those socialist men,
including Lula, the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality president in the
history of Brazil.” He should also have stated, “I encouraged crowds to vote
for the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality politicians in the history of
Brazil and of Rio de Janeiro.” It would be hard to confirm that truth, as well
as it would have been unpleasant for Elijah to say, “As a prophet of the Lord,
I have voted for, I have supported and I have promoted, with my signature,
Ahab, the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality king in the history of
Israel, and I encouraged the whole people of Israel to vote for him.”

Malafaia also
said, “I vote for people and not for parties.” Does this justify voting for,
supporting and promoting systematically people that have an ideological history
against family and against Christianity? Does this justify encouraging crowds
of evangelicals to vote for people that have an ideological history against
family and against Christianity?

It is paranoid
to fight abortion and homosexuality and to vote for, to support and to promote
politicians that promote those evils. It is equally paranoid to fight abortion
and homosexuality and to encourage churches to vote for those politicians. It
is like a man that fights a great fire, but once in a while he throws gas in
the fire. It is like seeing a dog trying to catch its own tail.

Elijah was a man
that fought the great fires of the social wickedness without throwing gas in
the fire. But Brazil doesn’t have that kind of man.

What Brazil has,
mostly, are 1) Christians that vote for and promote the Workers’ Party or other
socialist parties (PSDB, PSOL, etc.) and remain
silent, and 2) Christians that vote for and promote the Workers’ Party or
other socialist parties (PSDB, PSOL, etc.) and don’t remain silent.

To remain silent
in the presence of the institutionalization of sin is sin! To open the mouth
against the institutionalization of sin while promoting those who do it is
better than silence, but it is also sin.

However, because
Brazil has no Elijah or John the Baptist, we are left with the imperfect option
of supporting Christian leaders that at least open their mouths. That is the
case of Malafaia. Although he has thrown a lot of gas in the fires that he is
combatting, at least he is not like many others that equally threw a lot of gas
in the fires and today remain silent or soften the dangers of the fires.

Actually, Brazil
needs a man to open his mouth without throwing gas in the fire. That is God’s
ideal. A man that denounces sin and says to the “kings” of Brazil, “Thus says
the Lord.” A man that, even running the risk of losing his radio and TV
license, would proclaim his messages in the corners of streets or in the
corners of internet.

In the lack of a
prophet Elijah or a John the Baptist in Brazil, let us make what Jesus taught
us:

“So practice and
observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do
not practice.” (Matthew 23:3 ESV)

Those words of
Jesus can also be paraphrased this way:

“So practice and
follow whatever they tell you in defense of family. But don’t imitate their
actions of voting, supporting and promoting anti-family politicians, because
they don’t practice what preach.”

Some consent
only by their actions; others by their words and actions. Therefore, let us
know how to discern what to do in the presence of total or partial omissions.

When they teach
us against abortion and homosexuality, let us hear and practice.

But let us don’t
imitate their actions. When they vote for anti-family politicians, let us don’t
imitate them.

When they
support and promote anti-family politicians, let us don’t imitate them.

Let us remember
their words and messages in defense of family, but let us don’t imitate what
they practice in election times, throwing gas in the fire. Let us ignore
completely their irresponsible political recommendations when they don’t
practice what they preach. After all, such was Jesus’ command: to follow their
good teachings and not to imitate their hypocrisy.

Therefore, in
obedience to Jesus’ words, let us follow everything that Malafaia and others
teach on abortion and homosexuality, but let us don’t imitate their actions.
Let us defend everything that Malafaia teaches in defense of family, but let us
don’t imitate him when he throws gas in the fire. On the contrary, let us throw
water in the fire, rejecting irresponsible political recommendations.

This article is
not criticism, but a necessary clarification after several articles by me
defending the antiabortion and anti-homosexuality stance of Malafaia.

He is doing very
well in the defense of family. Only his political weaknesses have been a great
trap for him and for Brazilian evangelicals.

In regard to
moral values, Malafaia has been an excellent conservative: he has been conserving
the biblical standard very well. But in regard to politics, he has been
everything, except biblical and conservative. As a minister of the Gospel, his
only role in politics is to lead wicked politicians to God and repentance, not
to lead evangelical crowds to wicked politicians, as he has been doing
systematically.

Above all, help
Malafaia to defend family, and Brazil will be greatly blessed. But if you
follow his political recommendations, you may eventually end up throwing gas in
the fire, and Brazil may have other Lulas and Cabrals, crazily obsessed by the
destruction of family.

July 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Marisa Lobo, a
Brazilian psychologist who identifies publicly as a Christian, answers
questions from pro-family activist Julio Severo about her struggle against
Brazil’s leftist Federal Council of Psychology (CFP), which has forbidden her
to publicly associate her Christianity with her identity as a psychologist, a
ruling that has recently been condemned by the Religious Right and Liberty
Committee of the Order of Attorneys of Brazil as unconstitutional.

Marisa Lobo

Lobo says that
she was threatened with the loss of her license by the CFP in response to
complaints from homosexual activists over her blog and Twitter posts condemning
the “gay kit” that the Brazilian government tried to distribute to public
school students in 2011, with the stated purpose of fighting “homophobia.” The
kit’s explicit contents and positive portrayal of homosexual behavior provoked
outrage among Brazilians and the program was suspended by Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff as a result.

Some of the
questions of the original interview were eliminated for the sake of brevity,
and paragraph breaks have been added for the sake of readability.

Julio Severo:Why is the Federal Council of Psychology
threatening you?

Marisa Lobo: For
revealing myself on the Internet as a Christian psychologist, for defending my
faith and principally for questioning the gay kit, which for me is not a form of
preventing prejudice, and is an incentive for homosexual practices. The gay kit
is very explicit, and from what I understand about public policy, its
applicability is not justified in such a personal way. The gay kit is a way of
giving privileges and creating an even greater form of prejudice.

With children
things should happen at the appropriate time, in a natural and general way. We
should have kits that speak of prejudice as a whole, about bullying suffered by
overweight people, nerds, short people, Evangelicals, homosexuals, ugly people,
blacks, blind people, etc. In sum: if we give a privileged attention only to
one category, we are discriminating against the others. That doesn’t eliminate
prejudice; it is just a Machiavellian tactic for privileging and instituting a
dictatorship and a superior group, and I am principally in favor of equality.

Julio Severo:If someone involved in homosexuality asks
you for help to abandon the lifestyle, what do you do?

Marisa Lobo: I
treat them. My oath, my code of ethics, tells me that I have to treat, to
listen to psychic suffering, and if the fact of being homosexual is causing any
kind of suffering, I do treat them. It’s my obligation, even if it is to change
their orientation, condition, or choice, if that is their absolute desire. I
could not deny it to them. I would be violating the code of ethics, would I
not? But it’s evident that, as a psychologist, I must respect resolution
01/1999 (the CFP resolution which does not permit treatment of homosexuality as
an illness – ed.). The World Health Organization says that homosexuality is not
an illness, however at the same time I don’t understand why there is so much
pressure from gay militants who fear psychologists who do not refuse such help.
Gay militants distort what we do and continue to monitor us.

What happens in
the therapeutic setting should be determined by the patient. The neurosis is
such that psychologists are fearful and are induced to make clear to the
patient that it isn’t an illness, whether it is or not. But if he’s going to
therapy it’s because he’s suffering. And if, I repeat, it is his will, I have
to be a channel, without imposing, something I have never done. What they say
about me is a lie and another strategy for condemning people who are Christian.

Julio Severo:Are the threats of the CFP impeding you
from helping homosexuals?

Marisa Lobo:
The decision of the person should always be respected. We must always keep in
mind the demands of the patient. We should respect his will without pressure. A
reversion (of his condition) can happen in many cases. The terrorism of the CFP
does not permit homosexuals to believe this. The CFP thinks that when someone
says they want to change, it is because of an imposition of religion, and,
since they don’t believe in God—because God for many of them is a myth—they
always are going to treat this topic with religious prejudice. I now let my
patient decide. If it’s what he wants, we go there, and in the process, he will
determine and even confirm if that is what he wants.

Julio Severo:Why is the CFP, which doesn’t impede
Spiritist psychologists from applying Spiritist techniques in their treatment,
so involved in what you do as a Christian that they busy themselves with your
clients?

Marisa Lobo:
Why? Look, I don’t know. It’s impossible that they still don’t know that a
Brazilian Association of Spiritist Psychologists exists, or Buddhist
psychology, or Jewish, or esoteric, or parapsychoology, etc. There exists a
grand number [of such things]. You only need to go to Google to prove it. The
Federal Council of Psychology is the most persecutory, unethical autocracy in
history. They have no moral standing to persecute me. They are activists
for ideologies, policies, sexual orientation, atheism, and they vent their
hatred and prejudice against Christians, principally Evangelicals.

But the response
is clear: Christianity speaks openly about homosexuality. So they want to
destroy us for being Christians. They combat the Bible punishing those who
follow it, because of religious prejudice. It is necessary to put an end to the
activism of the CFP, which should be investigated by public prosecutors, since
it committs various crimes, it violates its policies, it’s hypocritical,
unethical. It clearly persecutes those who oppose it. That’s why I have been
persecuted. There is a war [against me] because today I question that Council
and its director.

Julio Severo:If the CFP revokes your license, what
will you do?

Marisa Lobo:
I am not going to abandon my profession over that, nor anything else that is
legal and moral. The CFP has no morals, because it has gagged us, and no
one dares to contest its decisions. We are obligated to accept them as the
truth, even if they are lies.

They are social
surfers, adopting themselves to the evolution of society, even if that
evolution is bad, because they have lost the sense of what is right and wrong
for the individual, of the family, of the necessity of rules, ethics, morality,
principles. They are just surfing. As a result, family crises and inhumanity
are on the increase, and now the legalization of abortion is coming, a
record-breaking number of divorces, condoms in the schools, the legalization of
drugs—and psychology adapts. Soon, we’re going to see sex on the beaches, and
the whole world applauding because psychology is going to determine that it is
a right to express one’s sexuality. That’s the direction humanity is going in.

Julio Severo:What caused the complaint against you in
the CFP?

Marisa Lobo:
The fact of my speaking of God in my social networks and of having asked the
deputies to pay attention to the content of the gay kit, which was an
aberration, with extremely inappropriate and sexualized content that in a sense
eliminates prejudice, but creates even more. They didn’t like it. When they
learned that it was a Christian talking, they began to persecute me, as a
psychologist who categorizes herself as a Christian, and later in the process
as a homophobe, because I said on Twitter that I love gays, but I prefer for my
child to be heterosexual. And I still don’t understand why having an opinion
instigates violence. Now I’m going to lose my right to say that I’m happy being
a heterosexual, and that I prefer my children to be heterosexual?

They want
society to think that I persecute gays, that I offer treatment for gays because
I’m a fundamentalist, prejudiced. They decided that, and that’s that. I
don’t accept it. The truth is that they are contradictory. They are trying to
use everything to qualify me as a “homophobe.” And in 15 years of work, never
did any patient complain that I imposed my religious convictions in my
practice. The case against me is religious persecution, religious prejudice.
The CFP thought that I would shut up, because many people deify
psychology. Well I, Marisa Lobo, only have one God, and I don’t serve the
insanity of these members of the Council. If they revoke my license, they are
going to dig their moral grave.

Julio Severo:True Christianity is “lose for the
purpose of winning.” Do you fear losing your psychology career because of
Christian testimony?

Marisa:
The only fear I have is that God might turn his face from me. God gave me the
opportunity to be persecuted for the love of him, and I accepted. God wants to
change something, and here I speak as a pastor. I am only an instrument. If my
license is removed, I am going to fight in all venues. My greatest fear is that
Jesus would deny me before the Father, and that will not happen, because I am
not denying him before men.

July 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Brazilian psychologists
are seeking to revoke the license of a therapist for publicly affirming her
Christian beliefs on her online blog and twitter accounts, an action that the
organization claims violates its code of ethics.

Marisa Lobo

Marisa Lobo, a
psychologist and Evangelical who has published several popular works on
psychological issues, sends Twitter messages to her thousands of followers
under the title “Christian Psychology,” and maintains a website with the same
name.

The Federal
Council of Psychology (CFP), which has the power to regulate the activities of
psychologists in Brazil, informed Lobo in February through its affiliate in the
state of Paraná that she had 15 days to remove any indication of an association
between her psychology practice and her religious beliefs from her website, or
risk losing her license to practice.

Lobo’s posts and
tweets often conflict with the sexually libertine and left-wing ideology
espoused by the CFP, including denunciations of homosexual adoption, and
support for sexual orientation change therapy. She claims that the process
against her was spurred by complaints from homosexuals, especially regarding
her opposition to the “gay kit,” a set of highly explicit materials which was
to be distributed to children in public schools in 2011 as an “anti-homophobia
measure.” However, the program was suspended due to public outrage.

In its warning
to Lobo, the CFP cited its code of ethics, which “forbids” psychologists to
exert “influence in favor of political, philosophical, moral, ideological, or
religious convictions, those regarding sexual orientation, or any type of
prejudice, when they are engaged in the exercise of their professional
functions” or to “give services or link the title of psychologists to services
of psychological care whose procedures, techniques, and means are not regulated
or recognized by the profession.”

Lobo responded
to the CFP with a letter stating that she has never imposed her views on
clients, and claiming the code is “unconstitutional.”

“I declare to
this council of psychology, that I am not going to comply with this decision. I
am not going to remove from my blog, and/or my twitter, nor from my site,
absolutely anything that links me to psychology and to my faith,” wrote Lobo.

“To the
contrary, I want my patients to have the right to choose me as a therapist
because they know that I, Marisa Lobo, am a psychologist, a professional who
believes in almighty God,” she added.

Lobo defies Council on same-sex
attraction therapy

In a subsequent
interview with pro-family activist Julio Severo, Lobo made it clear that she
does, and will continue to do, therapy for those homosexuals who wish to
develop opposite-sex attraction, which appears to be forbidden by the CFP’s
ethical code.

“My oath, my
code of ethics, tells me that I have to treat, to listen to psychic suffering,
and if the fact of being homosexual is causing any kind of suffering, I do
treat them. It’s my obligation, even if it is to change their orientation,
condition, or choice, if that is their absolute desire. I could not deny it to
them. I would be violating the code of ethics, would I not?”

She added,
however, that she “respects” the CFP’s 1999 resolution condemning the treatment
of homosexuality as an illness. However, if a homosexual is “going to therapy
it’s because he’s suffering. And if, I repeat, it is his will, I have to be a
channel, without imposing, something I have never done … I now let my patient
decide. If it’s what he wants, we go there, and in the process, he will
determine and even confirm if that is what he wants.”

Council’s actions “unconstitutional,”
says national bar association

Brazil’s
national bar association, known as the Order of Attorneys of Brazil, also
disagrees with the CFP’s actions, calling them an “undoubtedly
unconstitutional” attack on Lobo’s religious freedom in a legal opinion brief
published in response to a request by Lobo.

The CFP’s code
of ethics “clearly shows the prohibition of proselytizing in the exercise of
this profession, however it is not about proselytism in a form of personal
expression of faith, and, therefore, of integrating the essence of religious
liberty in the broad sense,” stated the Order in a declaration on the case.

The attention
drawn to Lobo’s case by media coverage has resulted in recent congressional
hearings on overturning the CFP’s ban on therapy for same-sex attraction, a
practice still recognized by the World Health Organization as a legitimate
response to unwanted homosexuality. Lobo testified at the hearing, where she
was jeered at and
interrupted by homosexuals, who chanted slogans while she sought to
testify. The CFP refused to participate.

The CFP’s recent
attack on Lobo follows a similar action in 2009, in which the organization
publicly censured psychologist Rozangela Justino for conducting reparative
therapy for homosexual clients who wished it, and ordered its Rio de Janeiro
division to enforce the ruling prohibiting the treatment.